A random flight of fancy I had for a crackfic. Depending on how it was played, it could either be really short, no more than a few chapters, or quite long.
The basic gist is simple. It starts out with the standard premise of Harry after a Bad End doing some cool magic that he pioneered to go back in time. He sets everything up, powers up the ritual, and sets it off.
The good news is that it worked.
The bad news is that Harry isn't the one who went back. Rather, he's the only one who didn't. Pretty much the entire cast of the series sans Harry 'wakes up' at some indeterminate point in the past, preferably the day the letters for the First Years of Harry's class arrive. They all have the memories and knowledge that they earned from their previous lifetime. Harry is the only one left out of the loop.
Cue massive clusterfuck trainwreck of people trying to change how their lives played out, with riotous results, and an innocent Harry Potter caught in the middle with absolutely no idea what the hell is going on.
Some points of possible interest:
~ Harry is bona-fide Hero? material, confirmed FACT. All the girls want him now that they know he's the stuff of Triwizard Champions, Dark Wizard killers, and legendary feats of did-he-seriously-just-do-that in general.
~ Voldemort is going to be a humongous threat this time around. He won't make the same mistakes twice, and worse yet, he knows exactly where the Philosopher's Stone is and how to get to it. Depending on whether Dumbledore or Voldemort realizes this incredibly important fact first, Voldemort may be back as early as the beginning of Second Year.
~ People are inevitably going to try and manipulate Harry to various ends, in a manner not at all different from how Harry typically tries to manipulate everyone else around him when he loops. In fact, this is where I predict the meat of the plot and humor will come from. Girls will try to get him to fall for them. Guys will either immediately like him or dislike him. His immediate friends may try to help him and push him in what they consider to be the right direction, which may or may not contradict with what his other friends think is best for him. Some of them will likely be clever about it, while others (Ron) will likely have all the subtlety of a troll in a glass factory. Some people will try to change everything into an ideal, while others will likely try to protect Harry from being manipulated, and still others will panic and try to maintain the original sequence of events as much as possible.
Thoughts?
The basic gist is simple. It starts out with the standard premise of Harry after a Bad End doing some cool magic that he pioneered to go back in time. He sets everything up, powers up the ritual, and sets it off.
The good news is that it worked.
The bad news is that Harry isn't the one who went back. Rather, he's the only one who didn't. Pretty much the entire cast of the series sans Harry 'wakes up' at some indeterminate point in the past, preferably the day the letters for the First Years of Harry's class arrive. They all have the memories and knowledge that they earned from their previous lifetime. Harry is the only one left out of the loop.
Cue massive clusterfuck trainwreck of people trying to change how their lives played out, with riotous results, and an innocent Harry Potter caught in the middle with absolutely no idea what the hell is going on.
Some points of possible interest:
~ Harry is bona-fide Hero? material, confirmed FACT. All the girls want him now that they know he's the stuff of Triwizard Champions, Dark Wizard killers, and legendary feats of did-he-seriously-just-do-that in general.
~ Voldemort is going to be a humongous threat this time around. He won't make the same mistakes twice, and worse yet, he knows exactly where the Philosopher's Stone is and how to get to it. Depending on whether Dumbledore or Voldemort realizes this incredibly important fact first, Voldemort may be back as early as the beginning of Second Year.
~ People are inevitably going to try and manipulate Harry to various ends, in a manner not at all different from how Harry typically tries to manipulate everyone else around him when he loops. In fact, this is where I predict the meat of the plot and humor will come from. Girls will try to get him to fall for them. Guys will either immediately like him or dislike him. His immediate friends may try to help him and push him in what they consider to be the right direction, which may or may not contradict with what his other friends think is best for him. Some of them will likely be clever about it, while others (Ron) will likely have all the subtlety of a troll in a glass factory. Some people will try to change everything into an ideal, while others will likely try to protect Harry from being manipulated, and still others will panic and try to maintain the original sequence of events as much as possible.
Thoughts?